Transformer Remanufacturing

ABB Transformer Remanufacturing Reduces Downtime and

Minimizes Risk, which Extends the Life of Your Critical Assets
Minimizing Risk
Companies routinely operate with similar sized units
throughout their system (including spares), whether
located at a single site or spread across multiple
locations. As a eet continues to age, a structured
replacement program may be a traditional approach,
but a remanufacture program may prove more
economical. Proactively remanufacturing at-risk
transformers avoids failures before they occur and
extends the life of a eet at reduced cost and time.
Solutions
With top quality work backed by comprehensive
OEM technology, years of repair experience, and
the largest transformer design database in the world,
ABB offers superior reliability, resulting in less time,
money, and personnel that companies have to devote
to maintenance.
Reducing Downtime
Transformers are critical assets in an electrical system.
If a service plan of action is not in place before an
unexpected failure occurs, production comes to a
standstill causing revenues to be lost and repair
costs to grow.
ABB Transformer Remanufacturing and Engineering
Services (TRES) understands that both utility and
industrial companies strive to maintain the reliability
of their transformers, but that failures do occur.
Reducing system downtime becomes a critical factor.
ABBs transformer repair operation in St. Louis,
Missouri is equipped with the personnel, resources,
and equipment to promptly get your unit back in
service. The process starts with an assessment of the
situation before the failed unit even leaves the site. As
the owner of the most extensive OEM database in the
transformer industry, ABB is capable of pulling the
original design drawings on approximately 70% of the
installed base in North America. Current and legacy
manufacturers include:
ABB
Asea
BBC
General Electric
Maloney
National Industri
Westinghouse
This means that cycle times can be reduced since
engineering and fabrication of parts can begin
before the unit physically arrives at the repair facility.
New windings and components can be ready for
installation shortly after the unit has been dismantled.
Complete in-house diagnostics and testing further
ensure that remanufactured units leave ready
for installation.
ABB Inc.
Transformer Remanufacturing and Engineering Services (TRES)
4350 Semple Avenue
Saint Louis, MO 63120-2241 USA
Phone +877-839-7877
Fax +314-679-4595
Email: Transformer.Service@us.abb.com
http://www.abb.com/transformers
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Transformer Remanufacturing Resources at a Glance
Maintenance of the most extensive OEM design and drawing
database in the industry
Employment of design engineers with various OEM backgrounds
Utilization of technology from numerous ABB transformer
factories worldwide
Development of engineering analysis and design studies
Deployment of eld engineers and technicians for customer
eld support
Operation and logistics management of ABB eet of heavy-
duty depressed center and Schnabel rail cars as well as off-road
platform trailers
Plant Equipment, Systems, and Testing Capabilities
Major Equipment and Systems
Disassembly isolation/remediation area
200 ton overhead crane capacity
Insulation fabrication
Dry process ovens for newly manufactured windings
VapoTherm processing
Paint shop and specialty shipping department
ISO 9001 registered
Core stacking table for disassembly, inspection, and assembly
Core form winding areas that include horizontal, vertical, and GE
layer machines
Testing Capabilities
Impule tests to 1300kV BIL
Haefely/Tettex TMS580 Loss Measurement System
TTR SPY Raytec transformer turns ratio set
Hipotronics 800kV DC applied test set
Biddle PD and RIV Detection System
Temperature test with gas in oil analysis
Doble 4000 for power factor testing
Doble M5100 Swept Frequency Response Analysis test set
Bruel & Kjaer with digital octave lter set for sound testing
Flir thermal imaging camera
Haefely HIAS-743 HiResolution Analysis System for impulse testing